Valentine Family Card 2026

Family Valentine card in an olive grove in Italy.
Olive grove in Tuscany, Italy.
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Books I Read in 2024

stack of books

Reading has been such a nice, relaxing thing for me, especially recently. Here is a quick list of the ones I read in 2024.

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A Goodbye to My Aunt Reta

Beautiful lady with glasses, long gray hair and a coral shirt.

My Aunt Reta, also loving known as Retabageta. Early memories of her include going to her house after elementary school with my cousins where she would color in coloring books with us and give us Chow Mein Noodles to snack on. She was full of interesting conversations from the books she read, knowledge she stored away, and BritBox mysteries she watched.

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